Starmap (Spaced Out)



With the Spaced Out DLC a starmap was added to the game. Planetoids lie on an hexagonal grid that spans a radius of 12 hexes from the central starting Planetoid.

Using a Telescope reveals hexes. You can only reveal hexes within 3 tiles of the colony where your telescope is. That means that some of the hexes on the starmap will be inaccessible from planetoids, however telescopes can also be used from inside spacefarer modules.

Launching from Surface to Orbit and Landing from Orbit to Surface
The hex tiles around the hex tile that contains a planetoid is the orbital of the planetoid. The orbital is represented as a ring around the planetoid.

At this time of writing, rockets do not appear to consume any of their fuel supplies when launching into orbit. Having a rocket land from orbit does not consume fuel either.